Odessa Soviet Republic

Одесская Советская Республика

Puppet state of Soviet Russia

1918

Flag

Area claimed by the Odessa Soviet Republic
on March 1, 1918.

Capital

City of Odessa

Languages

Russian

Government

Soviet republic

Chairman

Vladimir Yudovsky

Legislature

Council of the People's Commissars

Historical era

World War I

•

Republic proclaimed

5 January 1918

•

Disestablished

13 March 1918

Currency

Odessa ruble

Preceded by

Succeeded by

	Ukrainian People's Republic
	Rumcherod

Ukrainian People's Republic

Today part of

Flag

The Odessa Soviet Republic (OSR; Ukrainian: Одеська Радянська Республіка; Russian: Одесская Советская Республика) was a short-lived Soviet republic formed on January 31 [O.S. January 18] 1918 from parts of the Kherson and Bessarabia Governorates of the former Russian Empire.

The republic was proclaimed during the Bolshevik invasion of Ukraine immediately before Bolshevik forces pushed the Ukrainian government out of Kiev and Sfatul Ţării proclaimed the independence of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. The Odessa Soviet's governing body was the Rumcherod, formed in May 1917 shortly after the February Revolution. After its Second Congress, the OSR's Soviet was chaired by Vladimir Yudovsky. He had been installed after a pro-Bolshevik coup d'état organized by the Narkom Nikolai Krylenko.

...
Wikipedia